Wow. Uber’s self-driving car unit may be worth $7.25 billion.

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Uber's self driving program is suddenly valued at $7 Billion. The only reason for Uber to release that information is to boost their pre IPO valuation. It's nothing more than desperate marketing to ensure maximum short profits.

Self driving cars are a pipe dream that won't work until everyone decides that they're willing to give up their personal vehicles and are willing to pay companies like Uber and Lyft to transport them everywhere. It's not going to happen, or at least not in our lifetime.

Apparently, Uber's technology, which has nothing to do with its core business, is worth a lot of money. It's all just money being thrown around. Uber has money to throw around. They own technology around self-driving cars. That's all it is.

Self driving taxis will be cool until they require medallions. They aren’t ride share vehicles they are taxis. Oh and when someone plants explosives in one and blows up a state capital that’ll be the end of that.

Not sure about medallions, but I am sure each car will be registered and closely monitored. and I am sure the # will be heavily regulated whether by the company itself or the authorities (cities/ordinances).

The reality of these things is still 10s of years in the future. Technologically maybe not, but politically and legally, nope.

Well we're never gonna have human-piloted flying cars. That would be a disaster. But maybe we'll have self-flying flying cars. To be honest I think that sounds safer in some ways than self-driving cars. Fewer obstacles in the air... Less unpredictability.